Why Does East Side of Yard Grow Better than West?

Why Does East Side of Yard Grow Better than West?

Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:47 pm

I have a fenced yard and I can't figure out why one side grows better then the other side it gets the same amount of sun on both sides, the east side grows 4 or 5 times better then the west side does anybody have an ideas. I have orlianders, coconut trees, crape mertil & cat palms.

soil

Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:05 pm

thanks for getting back to me but this is virgin soil well its new construction going on 8 yrs and when they get the dirt they mix it with other dirt to give compaction I live in florida and with that said pretty much any thing you put in the grown usually grows. any other ideas please throw them out there. chow

It could be many things. Is the soil compacted in that area? Do you have any natural occuring rock in the soil? What is planted near this area? I would start with the soil test, as that would rule out an awful lot of things.

I haven't figured out why one side does better than the other but you could fertilize the side that is not growing as well and leave the other alone. Are there plants of each type you listed on each side of the yard? It's not a pain in the a__. Most people that are here are here because we enjoy it. I, for example, worked in the nurseryfor 9 years and miss the everyday questions/conversation that I don't get nearly as much of running the business.

slow side

Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:21 am

thanks roger, i just fertilized everything its that time of the year so maybe i'll get some black cow and peat moss and till it in that slow side maybe it will be like a protien shake don't know what else to do well thanks again roger.

"Morning sun is gentler and the setting afternoon sun is blisterin? well it seems like the side that gets the afternoon sun does better which is the east side. The west side gets the rising sun. "

Not getting it. Where do you live in the US where the sun rises in the west and sets in the east? Surely you didn't really mean that?

It would certainly have been my thought about it, that it is very difficult to say the east and west side get the same light. Morning sun is very different from afternoon sun (not necessarily better or worse, that depends on the plant, some plants prefer one or the other).

Also I know that I have two flower beds at the front edge of my lawn, one maybe 30' north of the other. They have some of the same flowers in them. But one bed gets some shade from a big lilac bush and the other is farther away from it and doesn't get shaded. The plants in the unshaded bed are considerably bigger and bloom two weeks earlier.

Yes I was wondering where the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Maybe China? When I first saw the question it was the first thing that came to me about the sun setting is twice as hot as the sun rising. Generally the hottest part of the day is around 4 P.M. That is the only difference if the whole yard is treated equally.